Safe Or Not? True Marijuana Facts

Yeah so I've been away for a while, I eased up on the smoking. I'm actually taking a break for school and football like I said, but I'm sure I'll be around sooner or later. I'd just like to leave everyone with this, maybe it can be stickied for everyone to see. Enjoy

In america alone, 75,000 people are killed due to alcohol related incidents per YEAR. The death toll for smoking marijuana has yet to start.

Delta 9-THC, the active cannaboid in marijuana smoke, is not physically or chemically addicting. A marijuana smoker can stop at any time they wish, with their own control, with no harmfull side effects, unlike tobacco smokers.

Also unlike tobacco, marijuana has NO harmfull or addictive chemicals or preservatives added to it. Factory produced tobacco has several.

Marijuana has been proven to be effective in reducing the nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma, and also aiding in the prevention of alzheimers.

None of the medical tests currently used to detect brain damge in humans have found harm from marijuana, even from long term high-dose use. The claim that marijuana kills brain cells is based on a speculative report dating back a quarter of a century that has never been supported by any scientific study.

Marijuana does not `cause' psychosis. Psychotic people can smoke marijuana and have an episode, but there is nothing in marijuana that actually initiates or increases these episodes. Of course, if any mentally ill person is given marijuana for the first time or without their knowledge, they might get scared and `freak.' Persons who suffer from severe psychological disorders often use marijuana as a way of coping. Because of this, some researchers have assumed that marijuana is the cause of these problems, when it is actually a symptom. If you have heard that marijuana makes people go crazy, this is probably why.

Is it true that marijuana makes you lazy and unmotivated? Not if you are a responsible adult, it doesn't. Ask the U.S. Army. They did a study and showed no effect. If this were true, why would many Eastern cultures,
and Jamaicans, use marijuana to help them work harder? `Amotivational syndrome' started as a media myth based on the racial stereotype of a lazy Mexican borracho. The prohibitionists claimed that marijuana
made people worthless and sluggish. Since then, however, it has been scientifically researched, and a symptom resembling amotivational syndrome has actually been found. However, it only occurs in adolescent teenagers -- adults are not affected.

When a person reaches adolescence, their willingness to work usually increases, but this does not happen for teenagers using marijuana regularly --even just on the weekends. The actual studies involved monkeys, not humans, and the results are not verified, but older studies which tried to show `amotivational syndrome' usually only suceeded when they studied adolescents. Adults are not effected.

Doesn't marijuana cause a lot of automobile accidents? Not really. The marijuana using public has the same or lower rate of automobile accidents as the general public. Studies of marijuana smoking while driving showed that it does affect reaction time, but not nearly as much as alcohol. Also, those who drive `stoned' have been shown to be less foolish on the road (they demonstrate `increased risk aversion'.) Recent studies have emphasized that alcohol is the major problem on our highways, and that illicit drugs do not even come close to being as dangerous.

But ... isn't today's marijuana much more potent than it was in the Sixties?
(Or, more often ... Marijuana is 10 times more powerful than it was in the Sixties!) GOOD! Actually, this is not true,
but if it were, it would mean that marijuana is safer to smoke today than it was in the Sixties. (More potent cannabis means less smoking means less lung damage.) People who use this statistic just plain do not know what they are talking about. Sometimes they will even claim that marijuana is now twenty to thirty times stronger, which is physically impossible because it would have to be *over* 100% Delta-9-THC. The truth is, marijuana has not really changed potency all that much, if at all, in the last several hundred years. Growing potent cannabis is an ancient art which has not improved in centuries, despite all our modern technology. Before marijuana was even made illegal, drug stores sold tinctures of cannabis which were over 40% THC.

Annual American Deaths From:

Tobacco.............400,000
Alcohol.............100,000
All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000
Caffeine..............2,000
Aspirin.................500
Marijuana.................0

MODERATE use of cannabis will raise the IQ in young users.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

Marijuana will not mess up your hormones.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...564&query_h1=1


Marijuana may protect your brain from Alzheimers.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/05...eut/index.html

"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known."
--Judge Francis Young of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

In terms of reducing brain cells, swimming is moe detremental to the brain than THC as while swimming you have to hold your breath.

In 1937 (the last year that marijuana was legal) only 100,000 Americans used marijuana. Now that marijuana is illegal, 30 million Americans use marijuana.

Educate.
Shrooms:thumbsup:

by the way, many of these were supplied by the lovely Recreation Board. forgot to credit in the OP. thanks guys

I copy/pasted/saved this into MS Word so I can slap it in the face of whoever I want, whenever I want, thanks...

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Originally Posted by OniEhtRedrum781

I copy/pasted/saved this into MS Word so I can slap it in the face of whoever I want, whenever I want, thanks...

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I like it. I will take 2!:dance:

Whoa, neato!

bump......5 stars please

All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000

Thats an interesting fact.

This proves that illegal drugs are better for you then legal ones. hahahaha. The government is fucked.

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Originally Posted by LIP

All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000

Thats an interesting fact.

This proves that illegal drugs are better for you then legal ones. hahahaha. The government is fucked.

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Many more people use legal drugs than illegal ones, meaning that if the same number of people used illegal drugs as legal drugs, then the deaths from illegal drugs would most likely be much higher than from legal drugs. Most illegal drugs are probably less harmful than legal ones though if used correctly, and if they were legal they would be even more safe since they would be regulated.

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Originally Posted by IllusionalFate

Many more people use legal drugs than illegal ones, meaning that if the same number of people used illegal drugs as legal drugs, then the deaths from illegal drugs would most likely be much higher than from legal drugs. Most illegal drugs are probably less harmful than legal ones though if used correctly, and if they were legal they would be even more safe since they would be regulated.

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read MACs post

In a non-biased report... non-stoner biased, well I had a cold a week ago, and after a coupla fuckin bowls i felt nice.. until my buzz was gone i felt a bit better, got higher the next day .. results : NO MORE COLD!!!!!!!!!!

i think every drug is bad for u in some way but by doing any drug your takin a risk, now im not talkin about shrooms and weed cuz thur not drugs thur natural god made plant and fungi,
peace

Good TRUE facts dude.. Thanxs for the info...

You'll notice this thread is a lot shorter now,
Please keep it on topic.

I was trying to prove someone wrong about driving (he was scared to go to mc donalds with me)

i was trying to tell him i am perfectly fine driving high because im more aware of all the road rules and what not....

lol, I got cut.

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Originally Posted by BobBong

You'll notice this thread is a lot shorter now,
Please keep it on topic.

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I must of missed what went on, I haven't checked this in the last day or two. Much appreciated, though. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

You really think that nobody has ever died from doing something stupid with pot?

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I don't! I think that many people have done dumb shit as a result of being high on the "marijuana" and died...but that really depends on the person...

How many drunk driving deaths are there a year? :thumbsup:

I know what my glass is filled with. :)

weed is also one of the best cures for hangovers i have ever used... just one more great thing about it

Weed has been shown to actually LOWER your chances of contracting lung cancer if you ONLY smoke weed (no cigs)And even the fucking DEA admits that NO ONE has EVER died as a DIRECT result of smoking weed.COFFEE kills more people each year than weed has killed in 3000 years.

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

You really think that nobody has ever died from doing something stupid with pot?

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POT won't kill you.You might kill your OWN DUMBASS self because you are a mental defective,but the weed itself is harmless.Don't blame your stupidity(or whoever you are referring to) on weed.Weed didnt do anything stupid.The MORON who chose to smoke something his emotional state was incapable of handling did.

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Originally Posted by LIP

All legal drugs......20,000
All Illegal drugs....15,000

Thats an interesting fact.

This proves that illegal drugs are better for you then legal ones. hahahaha. The government is fucked.

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In no way does that prove illegal drugs are better. All drugs are bad, including weed.

More people die off legal drugs because taking them is more widely accepted in society. I know older people who take vikodin all of the time but when it comes to heroin, they are like "fuck that" not even thinking that they are hooked on a painkiller, the same thing heroin is.

Now back to the weed thing, I did say weed is bad, the level of it's badness is nowhere near as high as other drugs (including tobacco and alchahol).

Saying weed is not bad for you is ignorant, admitting it's not as bad as your government claims is correct. Smoking anything is bad for you from the start, plus throw in smoking as a teen. I know for a FACT that I am mentally addicted (as in all I think about when im not high is getting high and when im sober im very grumpy/unmotivated) and weed has effected all my scheduling (but not my schoolwork).

HOLY SHIT how do you die from caffeine?!?!?!??!?!?!?
<very scared bc drinks crack coffee 562 times a day>

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Originally Posted by AlwaysBlazed

In no way does that prove illegal drugs are better. All drugs are bad, including weed.

More people die off legal drugs because taking them is more widely accepted in society. I know older people who take vikodin all of the time but when it comes to heroin, they are like "fuck that" not even thinking that they are hooked on a painkiller, the same thing heroin is.

Now back to the weed thing, I did say weed is bad, the level of it's badness is nowhere near as high as other drugs (including tobacco and alchahol).

Saying weed is not bad for you is ignorant, admitting it's not as bad as your government claims is correct. Smoking anything is bad for you from the start, plus throw in smoking as a teen. I know for a FACT that I am mentally addicted (as in all I think about when im not high is getting high and when im sober im very grumpy/unmotivated) and weed has effected all my scheduling (but not my schoolwork).

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mentally addicted means its ALL IN YOUR LITTLE HEAD......and weed is NOT BAD.................its a drug and not extremely healthy....but the only BAD weed is shwag....

bump, ive been having arguements with kids are school about pot

today in class, one kid said i did drugs, and i said " i don't do drugs, i smoke weed" and hes like dont even say weed isnt a drug. and i said, "well alcohol is a drug also, and you always talk about wanting to get wasted, so hey look youre a drug abuser"

then we talked about how alcohol is worse than pot. anyone want to shed some light on the topic?

Bookmarked!

Excellent post Shrooms!

F*** prohibition!

IT only hurts the people who use, while the government and drug dealers get rich!

It creates a market for crime, violence and suffering.

Thats why alcohol prohibition was DX'd.

The government preventing me from doing what I please with my own body is the most vile of infringments upon presonal liberty. No different then if the governmetn was run by atheists, and they outlawed believing in god.

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Originally Posted by Shrooms

bump, ive been having arguements with kids are school about pot

today in class, one kid said i did drugs, and i said " i don't do drugs, i smoke weed" and hes like dont even say weed isnt a drug. and i said, "well alcohol is a drug also, and you always talk about wanting to get wasted, so hey look youre a drug abuser"

then we talked about how alcohol is worse than pot. anyone want to shed some light on the topic?

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Interesting about alcohol. I was never a big drinker, I used to party and I would get F'd up, but those weren't a common occurance. After I got out of the service, I started drinking, it quickly evolved into full blown alcoholism. I was waking up @ 6 am to start drinking beer. I was consuming roughly 40 beers a day.

The withdrawl sypthoms from alcohol are very painful. I was shaking, hungry from never eating, but never wanting to eat.

I was quickly broke and doing dumb things like driving drunk, real drunk. Finally I caused an accident, totalled my truck that was almost payed off and have been fucked ever since. Alcohol has defaintly had a negative impact on my life.

I can honestly that pot has not. The only harm that has come from smoking pot is in the form of outside forces (Cops) busting me for pot. I function great as does my wife.

Now I need to go get some beer. later.